Article: Yavne: a recipe for success

Larry Derfner
Jerusalem Post
12-26-1997
There are two kinds of development towns in Israel - those that developed and those that didn’t.

Today when people think of a development town they think of Ofakim - an outpost of unemployment and despair, where minimum-wage textile factories and canneries are closing one after another as their employers relocate to Jordan, Egypt and the Far East where labor costs are about one-tenth of Israel's.

Ofakim has many sister cities in failure: mainly in the Negev, but some in Galilee: Netivot, Sderot, Mitzpe Ramon, Hatzor Haglilit and others,

On the opposite side of the ledger are Arad, Karmiel, Migdal Ha'emek, Yavne, Yokne'am and other development ...

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